There are 2 sets of cursors, the standard one, as a pure conversion of Corvian's pack, and one that I added, extra large, where I resized/altered the cursors/animations to make them bigger/better suit the higher screen resolutions.
Standard pack:
Extra large pack:
Demo:
How to download:
I hope you'll enjoy it!
Edit 1:
It seems that if you're using Windows 10 or 11 you can adjust the size of pointer, which basically, for the standard pack, you'd get a better look for the cursor than you'd get with extra large pack. Info found out here.
Here's how to make the adjustment:
In the meantime I found on this site 2 sets of cursors (HD resolution) from Starcraft Remastered, uploaded by up2uuu, which could be converted to Windows/Linux cursor animations:
https://www.macx.net/th-2239581-1-1.html
, respectively:
and:
Other sites that have Starcraft Brood War cursor packs, different than the ones above:
http://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-set/starcraft-original
http://www.pcmoe.net/thread-85761-1-3.html (although for this site you're supposed to pay 5 coins to get it; according to the comments it seems to be working; I tried other sites, about 10 of them, but their download is broken)
TL threads related to Starcraft Brood War cursors:
- https://tl.net/forum/general/66775-starcraft-cursors
For the tl thread link above, 2 of its dead download links can still be accessed here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120321172822/http://www.creepcolony.com/starcraft-cursors.zip
https://web.archive.org/web/20060214040501/https://www.custom-creations.org/~starsite/programs/BW1.zip
- https://tl.net/forum/brood-war/524288-brood-war-cursor-for-windows
These are the tools that I used for converting and editing the cursor pack:
- ImageMagick
- win2xcur (for this case x2wincur)
- RealWorld Cursor Editor 2023.1
Edit 2:
Steps for converting the Linux cursor pack to the Windows cursor pack, and for editing the cursor pack:
0. Download "broodwar_linux_cursor.tar.gz" from https://store.kde.org/p/1680392 and extract it
1. Download ImageMagick (as of now "ImageMagick-7.1.1-32-Q16-HDRI-x64-dll.exe") from https://imagemagick.org/script/download.php#windows and install it
2. Download the latest Python version (as of now Python 3.12.3) from https://www.python.org/downloads/ and install it
3.
Let's say this is your downloads folder on Windows, where you have to replace USERNAME with your own username:
C:\Users\USERNAME\Downloads
, and all the files above are stored in this "Downloads" folder.
4. Press Windows + R keys at the same time and a prompt will show up, type into it "CMD", without the quotes, and press Enter. In the CMD window that will pop up, type in:
pip install win2xcur
and hit Enter. Wait for it to finish installing. But don't close the CMD window
5. Go into the "broodwar_linux_cursor.tar" folder from "Downloads" and you'll find in it the "broodwar_linux_cursor.tar" archive. Extract this archive, and you'll get the "broodwar_linux_cursor" folder.
6. Back to the CMD window, type in the next commands (after each command on each line, type enter, before typing in the next command):
cd "C:\Users\USERNAME\Downloads\broodwar_linux_cursor.tar\broodwar_linux_cursor\broodwar"
md result
cd cursors
for %f in (*.*) do x2wincur.exe "%f" -o ..\result
, and wait for the conversion of the cursor pack from Linux to Windows to finish.
7. Type in next commands:
cd ..
explorer result
8. Now you can see that the "result" folder has all the Windows cursor pack stored in it, with .ani (Windows Animated Cursor, basically animated cursor) and .cur (Windows Cursor Image, basically cursor image - non-animated cursor) file extensions.
To make file extensions visible on Windows, type in CMD the next 2 commands:
REG ADD HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced /v HideFileExt /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe & start explorer.exe
9. Download "RWCursorEditor64.zip" from http://www.rw-designer.com/cursor-maker and extract it
10. From the "RWCursorEditor64" extracted folder, run "RWCursorEditor.exe" and edit any of the .ani or .cur files from the "result" folder
P.S:
For the people who know about Powershell, instead of using this command for CMD:
for %f in (*.*) do x2wincur.exe "%f" -o ..\result
you should use this command for Powershell:
Get-ChildItem -File | Foreach-Object { Write-Verbose "Processing file: $($_.FullName)" -Verbose; x2wincur.exe $_.FullName -o ..\result; Write-Verbose "Output created in: ..\result" -Verbose }
Edit 3